Large hospital variation in the utilization of Post-procedural CT to detect pulmonary embolism/Deep Vein Thrombosis in Patients Undergoing Total Knee or Hip Replacement Surgery: Japanese Nationwide Diagnosis Procedure Combination Database Study.
Kanako K KumamaruHiraku KumamaruHideo YasunagaHiroki MatsuiToshinobu OmiyaMasaaki HoriMichimasa SuzukiAkihiko WadaKoji KamagataTomohiro TakamuraRyusuke IrieAtsushi NakanishiShigeki AokiPublished in: The British journal of radiology (2019)
We observed significant variability in the utilization of post-procedure CT for VTE detection among inpatients who underwent TKR/THR surgeries in a large sample of Japanese hospitals. The large variation suggests that CT utilization is not optimized across the nation, and that there may be potential overutilization of the technology in the highest CT use hospitals.
Keyphrases
- pulmonary embolism
- image quality
- dual energy
- computed tomography
- contrast enhanced
- minimally invasive
- healthcare
- patients undergoing
- positron emission tomography
- inferior vena cava
- venous thromboembolism
- magnetic resonance imaging
- total knee arthroplasty
- emergency department
- magnetic resonance
- knee osteoarthritis
- adverse drug
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- label free
- human health
- total hip arthroplasty